Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

This article is about the public research university in Australia. For its Vietnamese branch, see Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Vietnam. For the unrelated private institution in Australia, see Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Coat of arms
Other name
RMIT University
Former names
Motto
Perita manus, mens exculta (Latin)[1]
Motto in English
A skilled hand and a cultivated mind[1]
TypePublic research university
Established
  • 1887; 137 years ago (1887) (college)[1]
  • 1992; 32 years ago (1992) (university)[1]
FounderFrancis Ormond[1]
AccreditationTEQSA
Academic affiliations
Australian Technology Network (ATN)
BudgetA$1.34 billion (2022)[2]
ChancellorPeggy O'Neal[3]
Vice-ChancellorAlec Cameron[3]
Total staff
11,492 (2023)[4]
Students91,544 (2023)[4]
Undergraduates54,422 (2023)[4]
Postgraduates13,553 coursework
2,558 research (2023)[4]
Other students
14,809 VE (2023)[4]
4,355 SDENA (2022)[4]
346 OUA (2023)
Location
Melbourne
,
Victoria
,
Australia

37°48′30″S 144°57′51″E / 37.8082°S 144.9643°E / -37.8082; 144.9643
CampusMetropolitan with multiple sites
ColoursDark green, gold, white, red and black[note 1]
               
Nickname
Sporting affiliations
MascotRupert the Redback Spider[7]
Websitermit.edu.au

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.[8] Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond,[9] it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in Australia, a founding member of the Australian Technology Network (ATN), and a member of Universities Australia (UA).

RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, science and technology in response to the Industrial Revolution in Australia.[10] It was a private college for more than a hundred years before merging with the Phillip Institute of Technology to become a public university in 1992.[11] It has an enrolment of around 95,000 higher and vocational education students.[12] With an annual revenue of around A$1.5 billion.[12] It is ranked 15th in the World for art and design subjects in the QS World University Rankings.[13]

The main campus of RMIT is situated on the northern edge of the historic Hoddle Grid in the city centre of Melbourne. It has two satellite campuses in the city's northern suburbs of Brunswick and Bundoora and a training site situated on the RAAF Williams base in the western suburb of Point Cook. It also has a training site at Bendigo Airport in the Victorian city of Bendigo and a research site in Hamilton near the Grampians National Park. In Asia, it has two branch campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi and a training centre in Da Nang in Vietnam as well as teaching partnerships in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. In Europe, it has a research and collaboration centre in the Spanish city of Barcelona.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "History of RMIT".
  2. ^ "Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Annual Information Statement 2022". acnc.gov.au. Australian Charities Not-for-profits Commission. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Council members".
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). rmit.edu.au. RMIT University. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  5. ^ "RMIT Student Life - Clubs Search".
  6. ^ "RMIT Student Life - AFL - Men's & Women's".
  7. ^ "Rupert the Redback Spider".
  8. ^ Parliament of Victoria 2010, section 4(b)
  9. ^ Ross 1912, pp. 145–154
  10. ^ Murray-Smith & Dare 1987, pp. 13–26
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference RMITact1992 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ a b "RMIT University Annual Report 2019" (PDF). RMIT University Communications. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  13. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 - Art and Design". Quacquarelli Symonds. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.


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